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Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?

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Re: Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?

#11

Post by steveBK123 »

magneticnorth wrote: post #10
animan wrote: post #7

This was fun to read! I wish there was a no tech version of hackers news for this type of content only

> I wish there was a no tech version of hackers news for this type of content only I used to think the same thing, but I've come to appreciate exposure to highly-technical content (outside my wheelhouse) that also "gratifies ones intellectual curiosity." I don't necessarily deeply care about the merits of GUIs and TUIs, but once it's pointed out, I can see the importance of being keyboard driven ( https://news.ycombi…

To be more specific, I think most of us would like to have a "not the current tech thing" page. So a front page that isn't 50-90% LLM content in 2026. In 2020 that would be crypto. Etc

Re: Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?

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Post by quuxplusone »

> One speculative interpretation treats these numbers as a distorted memory of prehistory. Under this hypothesis, the reign boundaries encode real climate shifts...

"One theory" implies that someone somewhere has ever claimed this. But has anyone? TFA gives no source for the claim, AFAICT (although I skimmed a bit).

Re: Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?

#14

Post by krapp »

steveBK123 wrote: post #11
magneticnorth wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I wish there was a no tech version of hackers news for this type of content only I used to think the same thing, but I've come to appreciate exposure to highly-technical content (outside my wheelhouse) that also "gratifies ones intellectual curiosity." I don't necessarily deeply care about the merits of GUIs and TUIs, but once it's pointed out, I can see the importance of being keyboard driven ( https://news.ycombi…

To be more specific, I think most of us would like to have a "not the current tech thing" page. So a front page that isn't 50-90% LLM content in 2026. In 2020 that would be crypto. Etc

From what I've observed (from the complaints people make about what is and isn't "HN worthy") most people who voice an opinion would prefer HN only have technical stories. It's common enough that it's explicitly called out in the guidelines: (On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups.)

This is a forum run by a Silicon Valley startup incubator. Unfortunately tech stories and whatever the current tech thing is will always dominate. And HN's design ethos of "no silos" means everyone has to see all of that content, and it will always push everything else down, especially anything non-technical (unless the mods force it up, which they can and sometimes do.)

The only way to get what you want (I do think it's an interesting idea and I'd like to see it) would be to start another forum entirely or else build a third party client to filter out all of the AI slop. Such stories will always be diamonds in the rough here.

Re: Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?

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Post by SurviveTheJive »

You can’t discuss kings without discussing the rich history of Europe with thousands of years of oral and written history long predating the Sumerians and even the ancient Proto Indo-European peoples to which European language and culture is often erroneously attributed.

The dark ages were anything but dark.

Ancient Europe was anything but primitive.

And yet it’s so rarely discussed in the mainstream.

Re: Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?

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Post by pavel_lishin »

SurviveTheJive wrote: post #15

You can’t discuss kings without discussing the rich history of Europe with thousands of years of oral and written history long predating the Sumerians and even the ancient Proto Indo-European peoples to which European language and culture is often erroneously attributed. The dark ages were anything but dark. Ancient Europe was anything but primitive. And yet it’s so rarely discussed in the mainstream.

Can you give us a few pointers or links?

Re: Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?

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Post by jfengel »

SurviveTheJive wrote: post #15

You can’t discuss kings without discussing the rich history of Europe with thousands of years of oral and written history long predating the Sumerians and even the ancient Proto Indo-European peoples to which European language and culture is often erroneously attributed. The dark ages were anything but dark. Ancient Europe was anything but primitive. And yet it’s so rarely discussed in the mainstream.

The "dark ages" were also thousands of years after the Sumerians. Even the Greek Dark Age postdates Sumer by a millennium.

So you're not really filling me with confidence about your idea here. Perhaps you can provide some sort of evidence?

Re: Does the Sumerian King List Align with Paleoclimate Events?

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Post by ksymph »

magneticnorth wrote: post #10
animan wrote: post #7

This was fun to read! I wish there was a no tech version of hackers news for this type of content only

> I wish there was a no tech version of hackers news for this type of content only I used to think the same thing, but I've come to appreciate exposure to highly-technical content (outside my wheelhouse) that also "gratifies ones intellectual curiosity." I don't necessarily deeply care about the merits of GUIs and TUIs, but once it's pointed out, I can see the importance of being keyboard driven ( https://news.ycombi…

I believe the parent comment was wishing for a separate site for non-tech topics because they want to see more, not less.
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